Intern - Technical Program Manager @ Uplers

The Role:

We, at Razorpay, are looking for an intern in the Central Program Management team with excellent skills, to join our engineering team. This position is part of our "Resume with Razorpay" program with a special focus on supporting women returning to work after a break.

This role is highly diverse and critical, involving the initiation, planning, and execution of intermediate to large-scale, cross-functional, and company-wide programs. As an intern with the Central Program Management team, you will be responsible for driving critical engineering/ product programs across Razorpay, using your expertise in collaboration, technology, strategies, processes, tools, and techniques.

As an Intern Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for leading cross-organizational programs that drive roadmap priorities and technical direction across teams. You will work with stakeholders across the organization and effectively communicate all aspects of the program, including surfacing risks and progress towards the goal. You will guide the team towards technical solutions and help teams make trade-off decisions, driving program management best practices across the organization to effectively deliver on program objectives.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead the definition, planning, and execution of assigned program(s), which constitute multiple projects, ensuring critical success factors are defined, progress is regularly monitored, roadblocks cleared and objectives are achieved.
• Own program definition and scoping, including the program plan and deliverables required for the programs success.
• Develop and manage an integrated program schedule, monitor and report on progress, and report program status on a regular basis to senior executives.
• Be a problem solver on the team, identifying innovative solutions to project deadlocks and resolve issues and constraints through consensus and sound judgment.
• Make project decisions and achieve tactical goals while retaining a strategic focus.
• Prioritize projects, leveraging data to drive decisions.
• Define, refine, and continuously improve processes and practices to drive efficiency and scale.
• Establish excellent working relationships with all internal and external partners, with an emphasis on removing roadblocks to program success.

Qualifications:

• Total of 6+ years of experience, with 4+ years in a technical/ product/ business role and 2+ years working as a project manager or program manager in software or related industries.
• A bachelors degree or equivalent in Engineering or a related field. PGDM/ MBA would be a big plus.
• Strong verbal & written communication and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, product and technical leaders, external partners, and developers & designers.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new environments and new technologies and learn quickly.
• Possess an in-depth technical understanding of the agile software development lifecycle.
• Ability to traverse both vertically and horizontally in a large organization.
• Extensive experience defining programs and implementing them across a team focused on delivering outcomes that meet rapidly evolving customer needs.
• Proven ability to bring clarity to ambiguous situations.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to interact with diverse technical and non-technical groups, spanning all organizational levels.
• Knowledge of project management elements, life cycles, tools, and reporting.